Get Thee to a Punnery

Get Thee to a Punnery

Author: Richard Lederer

Publisher: Laurel

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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"The Pun Is Mightier Than The Sword... Richard Lederer has great puns. And you don't have to take vows to enjoy them. Just "Get Thee To A Punnery and laugh yourself int a state of grace. Sinners will be punished with such gems as: -Old Milkmaids never die -- they just kick the bucket. -Drunk drivers are people who put the quart before the hearse. Whether you like 'em hot or cool, straight-up or low-down, here are puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit your every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you.


Language Play

Language Play

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-06-11

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780226122052

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In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them. Crystal makes a simple argument-that since playing with language is so natural, a natural way to learn language is to play with it-while he discusses puns, crosswords, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, scat singing, and much more.


Pun and Games

Pun and Games

Author: Richard Lederer

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 1996-06-01

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 1613746288

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Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more.


Anguished English

Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780941711814

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A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.


More Anguished English

More Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer

Publisher: Dell

Published: 1994-09-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0440215773

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All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language.


Word Hero

Word Hero

Author: Jay Heinrichs

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0307716376

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Yes, it’s true: you can learn how to be a verbal wizard! Ever hear someone utter an unforgettable phrase and feel yourself reacting with with…well, awe? Ever read a great quote and think I could never come up with anything that clever? Daunting as it may seem, there’s nothing mystical about witcraft. Crafting memorable lines doesn’t require DNA-encoded brilliance. What it does require is some knowledge of the tricks and techniques that make words stick. In Word Hero, Jay Heinrichs rescues the how-to of verbal artistry from cobwebbed textbooks and makes it entirely fresh– even a little mischievous. Fear not: on offer here are not dry, abstract ideas couched in academic jargon. Rather, Heinrichs takes you on an amusing – and amazingly helpful – tour of the mechanisms that make powerful language work. You’ll learn how to slyly plant your words in people’s heads and draw indelible verbal pictures by employing such tools as “crashing symbols,” “rapid repeaters,” “Russian Dolls” and even the powers of Mr. Potato Head. With those tools and others tucked in your utility belt, you might not immediately achieve “wordsmith immortality” but you will become a better speaker, writer, and raconteur…and long after people have forgotten everything else, they’ll remember your priceless lines.


Fractured English

Fractured English

Author: Richard Lederer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1996-11

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0671000365

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Presents a collection of humorous language errors from newspaper headlines, politician's remarks, court transcripts, insurance forms, signs, and classified ads.


The Pun Also Rises

The Pun Also Rises

Author: John Pollack

Publisher: Avery

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1592406750

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At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book is a funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history.


Semantricks

Semantricks

Author: Lewis M. Gediman

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781429981729

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At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words. Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce Friction: Novel that rubs you the wrong way Negligence: Woman's forgotten dressing gown Zinfandel: Heathen wine Ranging from the merely fetched (Spaniel: Iberian canine) to the far-fetched (Buccaneer: Piracy in corn pricing) to the neurologically suspect (Giraffe: Very tall spotted decanter), Semantricks will surprise, delight, and even stump the most word-wary pundits. Suffix it to say, you'll never look at diphthong the same way again.


Presidential Trivia

Presidential Trivia

Author: Richard Lederer

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781423610540

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From the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book-Presidential Trivia. In it you'll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as : Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but cerainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our Tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker? Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff.